A spokesperson for the agency confirmed that the death was “multifactorial.” The response of the health authorities of Mexico.
Days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the first human death from H5N2 avian flu in Mexico. However, the country denied the cause of death and the agency recanted and clarified that the patient died from other diseases.
“It is important to indicate that the death was multifactorialnot attributable to H5N2 virus“he confirmed Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the health organization. The statement released by the WHO The death of the patient in Mexico sparked international alarm due to the spread of the virus and its ability to be transmitted between humans.
What did the patient die from in Mexico?
The agency had reported that it was “the first laboratory-confirmed human case of influenza A(H5N2) virus infection reported worldwide. After the statement, the Mexican Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, denied the cause of death due to bird flu.
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Along the same lines, he questioned the organization’s statement and maintained: “It is quite bad. From the outset it talks about a fatal case, which was not the case. “He died from another cause.”. The official explained that the 59-year-old patient had diabetes and kidney problemsTherefore, the doctors proceeded to take samples and it was in one of them that they found the H5N2 virus.
In any case, Alcocer denied that the death was caused by bird flu. H5N2 and clarified that the patient also of being infected by the virus had other pathologies such as chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and systemic arterial hypertension of long evolution, and considered that these pre-existing diseases could have caused his death.
Avian flu in Mexico: WHO continues the investigation
Having clarified this, Lindmeier stressed that the investigation continues in progress, but did not confirm whether it would expand to a reevaluation of the global situation of the disease. The truth is that the announcement of the death of a man from bird flu in Mexico raised concern due to the transmission of the virus between humans.
Regarding this, the organization indicated that for the moment the risk to the population is “weak”. Furthermore, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) They also clarified that the virus that is currently circulating It does not have the ability to spread easily between people.
Source: Ambito
